Design idea

For this piece of work I used a combination of Cristoffer relander and Stina person.  The colours and tone I used are influenced by Stina as the colour is bold and how the image I used to mask the picture of me was originally watercolours I dripped on a piece of A4 white paper and let them freely run into each other. I later scanned the image into Photoshop and then raised the contrast and vibrance. For the image of me I first cropped any shadow that was not needed. Later I turned the image into black and white and exaggerated the tones from black to grey so you could see the levels of my skin for example my cheeks and forehead. I later used Gaussian blur to make the image look smoother. I later saved the image as a map.
 I created a same file except that I didn’t exaggerate the tone of my face and just left it black and white. I uploaded the image of the watercolour paint I scanned before and overlapped it on the image of me. I clicked on the watercolour layer and used a distort effect called displace and it created an image of me in the same submerged into the paint. I change the layer type into darker and used the burn tool on parts which I thought that needed to be seen like my lips, the indivual hair and the detail on my clothes.